Songwriting Workshop: Melody

Learn to construct strong, expressive melodies that your audiences will remember.

In this class, songwriter/author Jimmy Kachulis reveals how to construct strong, expressive melodies that your audiences will remember. It begins with a focus on rhythm, showing how it can support the lyric's meanings. Then, you'll learn how the precise use of pitch can strengthen a melody, making it natural to sing, and supporting the lyric's expressive goals and possibilities. You'll learn effective ways to write melodies over common modes and chords, and develop these ideas into complete songs. You will learn to:

• create memorable melodies
• use counterpoints effectively in song construction
• develop melodic ideas over different modes
• incorporate melodies across chords into different song sections

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